papaJohnMiller
Technical User
Greetings All,
I just started working for a medium sized company. They recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge T310 server with a dual gigabit ethernet NIC adapters. Accessing the database on the server itself is very fast. The program I'm using to speed test takes about 6 seconds. However, when I run the same program from my desktop off the server, it takes between seven and eight minutes. This is not surprising since the whole office is a miss mash of differing standards. The router and switches are 10/100 BASE-T. The cables are all CAT 5, and the switch on my desk is only 10 BASE-T.
We are looking at upgrading the router, switches and cables to make everything consistent, but I wanted to make sure that this was going to speed things up significantly before we make the plunge. I disconnected the ethernet cables from the server and ran one cable straight from the server into my laptop which has a gigabit connection. After rebooting both machines, I ran my little program and it still takes between 3 to 4 minutes to complete. Obviously, I was hoping for much better.
Am I missing something obvious? It sure seems like I should be able to access the database a whole lot faster. Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
John Miller
I just started working for a medium sized company. They recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge T310 server with a dual gigabit ethernet NIC adapters. Accessing the database on the server itself is very fast. The program I'm using to speed test takes about 6 seconds. However, when I run the same program from my desktop off the server, it takes between seven and eight minutes. This is not surprising since the whole office is a miss mash of differing standards. The router and switches are 10/100 BASE-T. The cables are all CAT 5, and the switch on my desk is only 10 BASE-T.
We are looking at upgrading the router, switches and cables to make everything consistent, but I wanted to make sure that this was going to speed things up significantly before we make the plunge. I disconnected the ethernet cables from the server and ran one cable straight from the server into my laptop which has a gigabit connection. After rebooting both machines, I ran my little program and it still takes between 3 to 4 minutes to complete. Obviously, I was hoping for much better.
Am I missing something obvious? It sure seems like I should be able to access the database a whole lot faster. Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
John Miller